Hmm, when the wolf is watching you, you can basically go "out of sight" by heading towards a wall for example, so even if you don't have any potion, you can escape the gaze (and the damages) by doing that, is it something you understood?
I think the fact we give the ability to make red / yellow potions from the beginning is kind heading the player towards that without understand that first mechanic sadly
We probably lack some visual feedbacks about that too